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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThinking About All These Confirmation Hearings Going On This Week.....
these Trump nominees have got to be mortified learning of this and being associated with Trump in any way. I wonder if we'll see some of them drop out.
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Thinking About All These Confirmation Hearings Going On This Week..... (Original Post)
global1
Jan 2017
OP
Fascinating to see the repubs trying to sneak everyone through in a mass confirmation...
Blue_Tires
Jan 2017
#4
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)1. Serves them right.
You lay down with dogs you're going to get fleas.
marybourg
(12,630 posts)2. They're probably making all the same
jokes as us. Watch tomorrow. See if they can hide it.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Hearings canceled.....
WASHINGTON Senate Republicans, under increasing pressure to ensure that President-elect Donald J. Trumps nominees are fully vetted by federal authorities, have delayed the hearings of four potential cabinet members, three of whom have not been cleared by the agency charged with unraveling potential conflicts of interest.
Hearings for Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trumps choice to lead the Department of Education; Andrew Puzder, his labor secretary nominee; and Representative Mike Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, Mr. Trumps pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, have all been pushed back as Democrats clamor for more time to collect and review the standard background checks that nominees traditionally undergo before their hearings commence.
Hearings for Betsy DeVos, Mr. Trumps choice to lead the Department of Education; Andrew Puzder, his labor secretary nominee; and Representative Mike Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, Mr. Trumps pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, have all been pushed back as Democrats clamor for more time to collect and review the standard background checks that nominees traditionally undergo before their hearings commence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-nominations.html?_r=0
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)4. Fascinating to see the repubs trying to sneak everyone through in a mass confirmation...